{"id":253,"date":"2004-12-14T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/14\/if-youve-done-nothing-wrong-youve-got-nothing-to-fear\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T10:06:09","slug":"if-youve-done-nothing-wrong-youve-got-nothing-to-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/if-youve-done-nothing-wrong-youve-got-nothing-to-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve done nothing wrong you&#8217;ve got nothing to fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can someone please explain to me how <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4093583.stm\">the Conservative party&#8217;s backing for ID cards<\/a> can be tallied with their claims that they want to cut back on &#8220;nanny state&#8221; big government, save money, and their age-old ideology of promoting individual rights and responsibilities?<\/p>\n<p>Can someone also please explain to me precisely how the Tories, who now back Labour&#8217;s two most divisive and unpopular policies in both the Iraq war and the intrusion of biometric ID, think that blindly following the government is the duty of an opposition party?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, can anyone explain to me why they might be worth my vote?<\/p>\n<p>More on this, perhaps, later.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: John at The England Project is keeping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theenglandproject.net\/mt\/archives\/000821.html\">a tally of previously pro-Tory bloggers who will no longer support the party because of this policy<\/a>. Are you one? Let him know.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2<\/b>: Howard&#8217;s bollocked it up good and proper with this one &#8211; even <a href=\"http:\/\/thecandidatespeaks.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/bad-idea-michael.html\">Conservative parliamentary candidates are pissed off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Time to start thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/where-next-for-democracy.html\">who next<\/a> again, methinks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can someone please explain to me how the Conservative party&#8217;s backing for ID cards can be tallied with their claims that they want to cut back on &#8220;nanny state&#8221; big government, save money, and their age-old ideology of promoting individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/if-youve-done-nothing-wrong-youve-got-nothing-to-fear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}